With his visit to Saudi Arabia, Dr Singh has re-emphasised that when it comes to the Gulf, Iran will not be the focus of Indian foreign policy... more »

The Culture Ministry is planning to launch a 'Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission' under which more than 2,000 places visited by Mahatma Gandhi will be conserved and protected... more »

I may set up a new party: Amar Singh.. more »

Graeme Swann grabbed five wickets to bowl England into a commanding position in the opening Test against Bangladesh on Sunday. .. more »

Toughening his stand over the Women's Reservation Bill, Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad said on Saturday that he would not bow down to any pressure and continue fighting against the present form of the bill... more »

IPL III kicks off with grand opening ceremony.. more »

Two British nationals who were arrested on the charge of recording conversations between pilots and Air Traffic Control today left the country for Bahrain enroute London, four days after a court here ordered them to be freed... more »

Tibetan government-in-exile has reacted sharply to China’s comment on the succession of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader – The Dalai Lama, saying the remarks made by Chinese officials were “unrealistic”.. more »

 Thanks to the helpline she started, women employees of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) can talk about sexual harassment, which was not even discussed in whispers two years ago, reports Neelam Pandey... more »

Images from the Pool B match between India and England in New Delhi on Saturday... more »

A New York cleric, who tipped off al Qaeda-trained militant Najibullah Zazi as he plotted to bomb the city's subways last year, has pleaded guilty to lying to US federal agents about his contacts with the terror suspect... more »

“I have severed relations with my brother after he tried to kill my son. I had taken care of him since he was eight. I left my studies to pay for his education, but this is how he repaid me,” said Ismail Punjabi (45), the undertaker of the graveyard at Marine Lines... more »

England beat Bangladesh by two wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to win the three-match One-Day International series on Tuesday with a match to go. .. more »

Formula One world champion Jenson Button thinks as many as seven teams could be battling it out throughout 2010 for the end-of-season honours... more »

A student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee was sent to police remand till March 6 for allegedly murdering a female IIT-Delhi student at a hotel here, police said on Monday... more »

Sports journalists on Saturday boycotted the FIH press conference for the second time in the week in protest against the mishandling of media accreditations ahead of the hockey World Cup which gets underway in New Delhi on Sunday... more »

Security has been beefed up for the fourth Test at Headingley Carnegie after unruly crowd behaviour during the third Test. "The reputation that Headingley has got has been built up over many years. The West Stand has a reputation as a party area and we've got to break that," Yorkshire Chief Executive Stewart Regan was quoted as saying .. more »

This series has shown a vast improvement in Thushara's approach as a bowler and he put it down to hard work at the nets. "We do spot bowling concentrating on line and length under the watchful eyes of the coaches. Even at practice we have to put in 100% effort like bowling in a match. That could be the difference why our performance levels .. more »

"I'm only 60 per cent fit and I don't want to play a major championship in that condition. My game is good but I just don't want to take any chances this week," said the Asia number one in 2006 and 2008. "I don't want to play in a tournament for the sake of playing in it but I want to be competing and be in .. more »

PARIS: After five successive defeats by Canadian-Serbian pair of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic, India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy succeed to win the sixth match and entered into the doubles final of French Open. The third seed Paes and Dlouhy outplayed top seeded Nestor and Nimonjic in straight sets 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) in the .. more »